Heather Schroering

Chicago Police Department Superintendent Eddie Johnson arrives to talk with reporters about charging the first of several juvenile offenders from the March 19 criminal sexual assault incident broadcast on Facebook Live during a press conference Sunday April 2, 2017 at the City of Chicago Public Safety Headquarters.

Prosecutors: Boys threatened Facebook Live sex assault victim with dog attack

August 18, 2019 at 7:33 p.m.

At least four males who streamed their sexual assault of a 15-year-old girl live on Facebook lured the acquaintance into a basement, slapped her several times and threatened to have...

Second suspect in custody after Facebook Live sexual assault

May 23, 2019 at 4:16 a.m.

A second teen has been taken into custody in connection with the sexual assault of a 15-year-old girl that was recorded on Facebook, police said. The suspect, a 15-year-old boy,...

No injuries when three tanker cars tip over in Riverdale train yard

May 23, 2019 at 4:15 a.m.

No one was injured when three rail tankers rolled over in the Indiana Harbor Belt train yard in south suburban Riverdale on Thursday morning, fire officials said. The incident took...

A 17-year-old boy was wounded March 28, 2017, in the 3300 block of East 84th Street, police said.

4 wounded in city shootings

May 23, 2019 at 4:15 a.m.

Four people were wounded in separate shootings from Tuesday morning to early Wednesday, Chicago police said. In the South Side's Englewood neighborhood, a 43-year-old man shot about 1:50 a.m. Wednesday...

Three cars of Amtrak train derail in South Loop; no injuries reported

May 23, 2019 at 4:15 a.m.

No injuries were reported when three cars of an Amtrak train derailed in the South Loop as it approached Union Station on Monday morning, officials said. None of the cars...

A young woman is distraught as she walks away from where three people where found dead inside a vehiclein a South Side alley in the 8600 block of South Throop Street on March 13, 2017.

1 of 3 found slain in car was brother of boy dropped to his death from CHA high-rise in 1994

May 23, 2019 at 4:14 a.m.

When his teacher heard Devontae Watson was found shot to death in a car, along with two of his friends, the first thing she remembered was the smile of a...

After Facebook Live attack, girl becomes target of threats, taunts

August 18, 2019 at 7:30 p.m.

Her 15-year-old daughter was still missing when the mother said she saw screenshots of her bright, ambitious girl being sexually assaulted by as many as six people on Facebook Live....

A man talks with Chicago police officers as they secure a shooting scene outside a funeral home in the 3100 block of West Roosevelt Road on the West Side on Dec. 17, 2016. Two people were in police custody in the attack and a 21-year-old man was seriously wounded, officials said.

Funeral home directors call for law to reduce violence at services

May 23, 2019 at 4:13 a.m.

June Williams, director of a Gresham neighborhood funeral home, worries about getting shot at work. In the last two years, Golden Gate Funeral Home has seen several acts of violence,...

One man injured after single-vehicle crash on Eisenhower

May 23, 2019 at 4:13 a.m.

A man was taken to a hospital with serious injuries after an accident on the Eisenhower Expressway in the Near West Side on Saturday, Illinois state police said. The single-vehicle...

March 15, 2017: Three found shot to death in car had planned night out with friends: ‘They were good boys’

March 13, 2020 at 6:01 p.m.

Even as she was scrawling the letters onto a piece of paper Monday, Tami Campbell knew her son would never come home, would never read her words. She left him...

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